The opposition occasion’s assault came to visit a social media put up by the BJP wherein it posted {a photograph} from the INDIA bloc MPs’ protest in Parliament on Wednesday against Amit Shah’s remarks.
Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kumari Selja and KC Venugopal, and different opposition MPs maintain portraits of Dr. BR Ambedkar throughout a protest amid the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi.PTI
The Congress, Thursday, slammed the BJP for taking a swipe at the INDIA bloc over its protest against Amit Shah for his Ambedkar remarks, alleging it doesn’t respect the chief architect of the Constitution and needs to decrease his stature for slim political targets. The opposition occasion’s assault came to visit a social media put up by the BJP wherein it posted {a photograph} from the INDIA bloc MPs’ protest in Parliament on Wednesday against Shah’s remarks.
However, the pictures of Ambedkar that the MPs have been holding through the protest have been edited out and changed with an image of US billionaire George Soros. Also, the backdrop was modified with ‘We Love Soros’ written on it. “Hello, Congress and INDI alliance. We fixed the image for you. You’re welcome,” the BJP mentioned in its put up.
The BJP has been on the offensive because it has claimed that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi had hyperlinks with George Soros-backed outfits allegedly concerned in anti-India actions.
Sharing the screenshot of the BJP’s social media put up and likewise the unique {photograph} from the protest, Congress normal secretary in-charge organisation Ok C Venugopal mentioned, “The BJP is brazen in its insult and ridicule of Dr Ambedkar.”
“Instead of ensuring the home minister is removed from his post for the immense hurt caused to the crores of Babasaheb’s followers by Amit Shah’s statements, they are doubling down on the ridicule. Is standing up for Ambedkar against the insult to him a matter of joke for the BJP?” he posed.
“They are bringing in their rotten falsehoods even on a sensitive matter like Dr Ambedkar’s legacy because they do not respect him and want to diminish his stature for their narrow political goals,” Venugopal mentioned in his put up on X.
The opposition on Wednesday seized on Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on B R Ambedkar to nook the federal government and demanded his resignation for what they known as an insult to the architect of the Constitution. The assault from just about all opposition events, together with the Congress, TMC, DMK, RJD, Left events, and Shiv Sena-UBT, led to the adjournment of each Houses of Parliament and prompted the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to come back out in stout defence of Shah.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brien submitted a discover to maneuver a privilege movement against Shah within the Rajya Sabha the place the house minister had mentioned on Tuesday night that Congress leaders would have gotten a spot in heaven had they chanted the identify of God moderately than following the style of repeating Ambedkar’s identify.
The hullabaloo in Parliament additionally spilled onto the streets of the nationwide capital and locations so far as Maharashtra, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu. In Delhi, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal led a whole bunch of supporters to assemble outdoors the BJP workplace and protest noisily amid slogans “Amit Shah maafi mango, Amit Shah sharm karo”.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior chief Rahul Gandhi, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, DMK chief M Ok Stalin, Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray, and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav have been amongst those that slammed Shah for his remarks.
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